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Clinton’s “What Happened” Straight into the Top Spot After Week One

By September 21, 2017New Releases

Just one week after publication, Hillary Clinton’s memoirs ‘What Happened’ has taken the top spot, selling 300,000 copies in the first week of sales and smashing some records along the way.

Publisher Simon & Schuster announced yesterday that the memoirs claim the number one chart spot based on sales across all formats. The publisher also claims that the audio download has recorded the best week of sales in its history, while the ebook has achieved the best week for a nonfiction title for the publisher since Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs in 2011.

Even in the UK the title has leapt straight into the hardback nonfiction top three, selling over 6,000 copies in its first week!

While the politician is such hot property, this isn’t the only book of hers that is popular right now and the picture book It Takes a Village (USUK) is also charting in the US top 100 right now, hitting 91st place as popularity for the politician soars.

Given the negativity that Clinton has received following her failed election race, this is no mean feat. Last week Amazon removed hundreds of reviews of What Happened from their pages after many slanderous and unrelated reviews appeared under the book.

Whatever you think of the 2016 election it’s no doubt historic and is likely to be remembered for many years to come, and with three reprints and 800,000 copies of What Happened currently in print, it doesn’t look as though Hillary Clinton is disappearing from the public eye any time soon.



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